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I? gtacey L. SKOVRA]̂ IK.O _, make the following free and voluntary statement to SpiecjalAgent Jeremy Gauthier whom I know to he a Representative of the United States Naval CriminalInvestigative Service, I this statement of my own free will and without any threats made to meor promises extended, I felly understand that this statement is given concerning my knowledge of mydaughter, H , disclosing being sexually abused,

For purposes of identification I am a white female 32 years of age, I was bom on in, MI, I currently reside at Camellia Road in Beaufort, SC and my home

telephone number is " My husband, Paul, is active duty Navy and stationed aboardParris Island, SC,

My husband and I were married on 14MAR9S and at the time were living in Michigan. On\ my husband and I had ow first child, H , After having H } niy husband rejoined

the? Navy in FEBOO and we were stationed in Camp Pendleton, Agent QAUTHIER asked aboutcomplications I had with respect to H , About six months into pregnancy, I began havingpremature labor and they put me on a medicine, which was given me to stop labor; however, I do notrecall the name of the medicine. The remainder of the pregnancy, I was on bed rest and stayed on themedication. I actually up going past my due date and had to have a C-seetion. Outside of the1st© pregnancy, J did not experience any other problems,

Upon arrival to Camp Pendletoa, we lived at Box Wood Road, which was located in basehousing. My husband and I lived at Box Wood until JUN02 and we moved to Alderwood, whichwas also located on base bousing. While living at * Boxwood, I hang around with a lady namedTanya , who lived diagonally across the street from us. She had a little girl, who was one yearolder feaa I and she spent the night there on one occasion, Tanya's husband, Charles, activeduty Nttvy, was also present Once at Alderwood, my husband and I became Mends with a neighborcouple. Their names are Gloria HESTER (1st marriage} and ELHERS (current last name) and herhusband Edwin ELHERS, They actually resided at , Alderwood, Additionally, Gloria has twochildren from her first marriage, Raadi HESTER and Samuel HESTER, Also, Edwin had a child froma previous girlfriend; however, the child did not stay with him or Gloria, As far as I know, Edwin hasnever actually seen the child, Edwin was and is an active duty Marine and the last time I knew he wasLCpi Edwin is a white male, about 69" tall, approximately 190 pounds, light brown hair, and know hehas ̂ ^p^g^^ni^i^^^^^^n^^^s^Baaeafiy, Gloria and I were stay at hometoothers and became fiiends. Also, Gloria worked part-time for the Base Exchange and she also baby-sat part time.

Gloria and I were good friends and would be at each other's houses during the day.Additionally, at this time I was pregnant with my son T: H . looked up to Randi, who is nowthirteen years of age, and they often did things together. Paul and Edwin would basically say hello toeach other and talk now and then; however, it was not like Gloria's relationship and me. Paul pretty

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much worked normal hours until around QCTO2, which is the time feat he was preparing to deploy to-Iraq, Edwin worked for Edison Range as a Weapons Instructor or something and worked two days onand two days off.

jl wls" feeling sick one day aad Paul was OB a two-week deployment I felt sickbecause of my pregnancy at the time and brought Eh . over to Gloria's residence to see if she couldwatch her for me while I took a nap- Also, at this time, Gloria's mother, Donna, was staying withGloria for a short time. When I got to the house, I discovered that Gloria was at work and Edwin alsotold me that Donna did not feel good either and was taking a nap. I basically told Edwin not to worryabout it; however, he told roe it would not be a problem and he could watch H; . Edwin told mehe would set up the game system for H ; to play and again he would keep an eye on her. I agreedand left H > at Gloria's residence %vith Edwin and went back to ray house and lay down. Abouttwo hours latetj Edwin knocked on the door and H; was with him. When I looked at H, , shelooked a little sad and I asked her what was wrong and she told me that she just missed me, I thankedEdwin for watching H and be went back home. Also, while living on Alderwood, Gloria'sbrother, Jimmy, stayed with Gloria for about a week and H referred to him as Mr. Jimmy.

, 1 had H and a child named James playingAt the time, Gloria was baby-sitting James on a part time basis and she bj«i been

watching him off and on. from the time we initially moved oato Alderweod. While K andJames were playing in the back yard, I heard H scresm and ran outside. Onee outside, I nsfcedher what happened and she told me James tried to put his hands down her pants. I immediately tookJames to Gloria and told her the situation. Gloria put Wit! in time out and later that afternoon, ai&father, Scott, picked him up. Once Scott picked James up he brought James to my house and had himapologize to H -. <JL ̂

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About a week after the incident with James, H up spending the eight st Gloria'sresidence and Paul and I were also looking to get some atone time. F . spent the night and Pauland I went out together. Agent GAUTHIER asked me if Edwin was home during that night- however,I do not remember. Shortly after H spent the night, which was around the beginning of DEC02, 1had Maintenance done on my residence and we ended up having to move due to maintenanceproblems, We moved on 1 8KEC02 and moved to Birch Road, which was also located on basshousing. After we moved to the new address, Gloria and I ended op staying in contact mainly via th§telephone; however, she stopped by the house once and a while. On 20DEC02, our son, Ti \ wasbom «nd on the night of Ms birfei H; ; spent the Bight with Chip mid Netta , who lived atBoxwood Road, When H spent the night, both Chip and Netta were home as well as their twosons, and* i, Chip was an active duty Marine and at the time was a Sergeant

About two weeks after T was born, Paul left for Iraq and we had a party the night beforehe left, There were several people at the residence and Hi , ended up spending the night with myneighbor Theresa, and her three childrett, sincelerimsband was deployed. Around thetime that Paul left for Iraq, I noticed H digfpng at her vagint! area both above and below herclothing irom time to time, I asked her why she did that on several occasions; however, each time she •just told me she did not know, Paul cams back from deployment around JUL03, During the time thatPaul was gone, I went over to visit Gloria occasionally, and at the time they lived at: Pinyon Road, . <*

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There were a ooaple of occasions that Gloria watched H : for me and when I had dropped her offw

Sometime around AUG02 or S-BF02, Gloria told me that she called the police because Edwinthreatened Randi with a bee-bee gun. She also told me that the police removed his weapons and himfrom the residence; however, I do not recall how long he was gone. Gloria and Edwin argued a fsdramount and was a large age difference between the two. <X,̂

Sometime in OCT03, my husband got order to Parris Island, SC and we moved to Beaufort,SC, Since OCTO J, I have mainfaiaea Wsffoamc contact wita Gloria as Weil as Xfffeiaeicorrespondence. During that time, Gloria has talked to me about a decline in their relationship. Gloriatold me that at one point, Edwin took a second job doing telemarketing research and actually metanother women during the course of mis second job. Gloria ended up leaving Edwin around APR04and she moved to North Carolina with her two children and her mother also moved in with her. SinceEviijg in Beaufort SC* I have noticed, mat ED " .still digs Into her va&nal area oc^asiajjaUy andagain have asked her why she does that but each time she told me she does not know. Since living inBessfisi, SCS H bag spent fee with Jaesaa David , who reside In Laurel BayHousing and their daughter , Other than that, H has not spent the night anywhere or beenbaby-sat by aiiydim £>L. ̂

Over me course of the previous weekend, Memorial Bay weekend, specifically on 2SMAY04,Paul and I met Gloria in Myrtle Beach and picked up her two children to spend the week with ourfamily. Gloria went back to North Carolina and we have talked on the phone during the course of thelast week. While Randi and Samuel have been staying with us, Hi . sleeps in her bed, Randi sleepson an air mattress in the playroom, and Samuel has slept on the living room couch. On Tuesday night,Randi and J stayed up, until about 0530 and basic^yteJfced about her mother aodniongy* Randi askedme why Hi touched herself and told me that she had observed her doing it I told her I did notkss .̂ I also told Rsssdi that I have feer if anyone has ttone aaythiag t& her aad she has told meno. Randi asked me if she wanted her to see if H, would talk to her about it and at about thattime, H, woke up and came? into the Irving room. I left tie fiving room and went to get Patd upfor work. After waking Paul up for work I went to sleep and got up at about 1 000, which wasWednesday, 02J UN04. When 1 got up, Randi approached me and told me mat she talked to Hand that H: told her some things. Also, Randi told me that It } needed to talk with Paul andme.

Randi told me that she asked HP -, if anyone had ever done anything to her, basicallyythmgaadH .told her ao. Randi then told me she told H feat if someone

did anything to her it was allright to talk to her mother, father, or her. Randi told me H gotrealty quiet asdfoldher ffesat Mr. Eddy did. Randi told EB« she Hi what &fe Eddy did toberand H told her Mr. Eddy put his penis in her "gina" and in her mouth. I told Randi mat I neededa few minutes and that I would go and talk to H ,1 smoked a cigarette and canned down for aminute. Randi and H went into the playroom and H .sat on the edge of the mattress andplayed with her doUhouse. I went In there and I told H mat Randi told nie she wanted to talk tome, H told me she wanted to talk to me aadwhrai I asked her about what H' ttoldmethat

•.Eddy did some bad things. I asked her what he did and she told me he put his "nuts" on her

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"gjiia". I asked her what she met by "nuts" and she told me that he put his penis in her "gina". I satthere lor a minute and men asked EL , if he did anything else. H, i looked over at Randi andRandi told her she needed to tell me what she told her. At that point, I had Randi leave the room andasked H what else he did. K told me that when he put Ms penis in her mouth that whitestuff came out I asked her where it came from and she asked me if I knew the hole on the penis whereT: , her brother, pees from and I told I knew what she was talking about. When I asked her whyshe did not tell me before., H told me she was scared. I asked her why she was scared; she toldme Mr. Eddy told her mat Paul and I would hate her and that he would kick her really hard. Also,when I asked H? where it happened, she told me that it happened at Miss Gloria's old house. Atthis point, I tried to call Paul and eventually got in touch with him later mat afternoon and I told himwhat HJ _ told me. H . also told me that Mr. Eddy played with her butt. I held H . for awhile and told her mat I was sorry for what happened to her and told her that what Mr. Eddy did wasvery bad and mat I would always love her no matter what and was not mad at her rather I was mad athim. From that point until me time Paul got home, I did not talk to H anymore about it and

andH ended up going swimming during 1he day.

QnceJPaul got home, which was about 1530 to 1600. Paul and I went into our bedroom to talk, and Paul waated to speak wi^t her alone. I left the fcedroojs and Paul talked to Hf fat

about teato fifteen minutes, I went into me-bedsoom, andHi

hep wfest it felt l&e: she sat there for a second. Ba^teld-is^titathe rasked&er -ifit^cMed and she toldmm it did not tickle and insread ii him reaiiy bad, r aul ended up taking H iu wo N*v «uto- see if they eouM do an

When Paul got back from the hospital, Paul told me they could not do an exammatioa andwould have to take her to a pediatrics doctor. Also, Paul told me that Hi mentioned that there wasMood when he was done and that he. meaning Mr. Eddy, cleaned her and the blood when he was done,Agent GAUTfifBR asked me who Mr, Eddy is and 1 know that to be Edwin ELHERS. Hi has

viE ELHE ss Mr. 5ddv. Alo sisce «h<* T"1^*^ *tw*- comment to me aboutGloria's old house she must be talking about Edwin ELHERS.

Agent GAUTH1J3R asked me about language that Hi uses for female and male body parts.My husband and I have taughi her since about me age of a year auu a uaif am* I mw»yi» *v&Mv«a to h£»vagina as her "gina" and a male organ as a "penis". There was a time when H; - asked me what thedifference between a male and female was and I told her mat a temale has a "gina" and a male has apenis. Also* she. calls her buttocks her butt and calls her breasts her "chest" or "boobies". WhenHi was younger I would normally wash her in the bathtub or she would take a bafh with me. OnoeeasiQnj she would shows with my husband-, which stopped when she was about two years old oryounger. Every now and then Hi. will come into the shower with me but she washes herself and Iv^ywssk her hair at 2sis age. H " * hasqpss*sdSj«4PQr?/bss2Pas! was peeisgand he has told herthat he was using the bathroom and she needed to go out He has always just told her to get out aadshe has. Agent GAUTHIER asked me about any pornographic movies or photographs that II,may have seen or inadvertently been exposed to. I have let her watch me movie Cocktail with TomCruise; however, there are no sex organs seen. Other man mat, 1 know of no movies or photographssfte has seen that are inappropriate. Agent GAUTHIER asked me if H, i has ever observed or

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walked in on anyone having sexual mtercourse or engaged in any other type of sexual act There wasone time, which was wMle we have Item Uvrngm Beaufort, SC that U t walked into ow bedroomwhile I was on top Of Paul. As soon as she walked in I got offof Paul and put the covers over us andtold her to go out of the room. As soon as she got out of the room, I had a T-shirt on and Paul putshorts on. I went to H " i and she asked me what we were doing and I told her that Paul wasrubbing my back and she asked me if we were doing something '̂ asfy*1" and I told her again that Paulwas just rubbing my back. She asked me why I was not wearing any underwear and I told her that Ihad just come from the bathroom and was going to put sweatpants on. Ht then asked me if Paulhad his underwear on and I told her he did. H *. asked me if she could see and so I took her in thebedroom and she saw mat Paul had on underwear and she was fine with that and she went to bed. I amnot aware of anyone that H has seen doing any&ing sexual other man what I just described.

Agent GAUTHIER asked me if H; i or anyone in my family has been involved with aphysical or sexual abuse investigation and we have not. Agent GAUTHIER asked me if there was evera situation wherein Edwin ELHERS made H . angry; however, I am not aware of any situation.When Paid and I got the kids from Gloria last weekend, He . asked me if Mr. Eddy was going to bethere and I told her that Mr. Eddy did not live with Miss Gloria anymore and she said, "good, I don'tlike him". I did not ask her why and have not mentioned anything else about it I have noticed thatafter leaving Camp Pendleton H seemed more distant than when we initially arrived at CampPendleton. Agent GAUTHEER asked me H 's medical history. While in Camp Pendleton and Ithink we were living at the Alderwood address when H ; got "flu like symptoms. She was lethargicand we took her to the hospital On the first visit, they took her temperature, gave her a Popsicle, andsent her home. On the way home, she threw the Popsicle up and we took her back to the hospital. Wetold mem she threw up and they attempted to give her an IV; however, they kept missing her vein.One of me doctors came in and was concerned about her being dehydrated and prescribed someTylenol. They tried to get clean urine to determine if she had a urinary tract infection. Whileattempting to put a catheter in, she got upset and told them mat was her privates and told one of theattending nurses not to touch her "gina". They gave up on giving her the catheter and eventually weended up leaving and she got better. Other than that, she has been healthy and not hospitalized foranything.

Agent GAUTHIER asked me if I had anything to add to this statement; however, there isnothing I can mink of at fins time. -c: j <CL

This statement, consisting of this page and 5 other page(s) was typed for me by Jeremy GautMer as wediscussed its contents. I have read and understand the above statement. I have been given theopportunity to make any changes or corrections I desire to make and have placed my initials over thechanges or corrections. This statement is the truth to the best of my knowledge and belief.

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Sworn to and subscribed before me this 3*"̂ day of in Use year

Witnessed: ^ve, Na^al Crimiiijjjlnvestigative Setvice

D^IVED FROM ̂ OlCLB 136,UCMJ (10 U5.C. W6) AND 5 U.S.C. 303

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